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Desert Regions are Familiar faces in many of History of the world. The Earliest civilizations and two of the world's major Religions were born here. This publication Environment, People and Development: Experiences from Desert Ecosystems Highlights some of the Basic and technologically refined information from many parts of the Desert Ecosystems of the world.

This book offers a novel approach to sustainable development through the theory and practice of communication in global food networks, focusing specifically on organic food and fair trade movements. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it brings together the fields of Communication for Development and Social Change, Agri-Food Studies and Economic Geography. This is supported with a participatory method that unveils voices from Indian farming communities, small European businesses and UK-based consumers. The book exemplifies the integral role of communication in sustainable development through direct and mediated communication processes that bring these actors together in the global food market. Such processes include trade relations, self-representation, and information and knowledge exchange through the spaces of the internet. Through these processes the book uncovers the instrumental role of communication in building a more holistic understanding of sustainable development. It also advocates that sustainable solutions require smaller, self-sustained projects and initiatives that pay closer attention to the voices and localized experiences of the people on the ground.

The vast natural resource is the basic need for human survival and conducive to making life comfortable for living being on this watery planet. But ruthless exploitation of this natural resource which cause severe imbalance in the ecosystem has become the great critical environmental issue. A society which eats up all its resources for its development has no future. The critical issue of crisis of normal survival of biota has arisen with man's unscientific exploitation of nature. Now-a-days, nature is not only destroyed but also steadily transformed into degenerated planet. Since the vast environmental resource is depleting fast, there is an urgent need to maintain healthy environment for healthier life. In the wake of environmental imbalances, short as well long term environmental management strategy should be formulated towards maintenance of ecology of planet This book entitled “Environmental Resource Management: Critical Issues” is the unique compilation of certain burning environmental issues with their management policy so that Environment and Development can not be in conflict. The present book will be useful to the students, research scholars, scientists in the field of Environmental management and ecoplanners, politicians. In short, this book is helpful for every one who is dreaming for cheerful environment as well as sustainable development.

During last three decades Sh. M.S. Virdi author of the book conducted nearly 200 training and demo programmes in rural and tribal areas and has already introduced several technologies in Central India. It may be mentioned that R&D Institutions of the country have developed a large number of Rural Technologies. In this book effort has been made to select some sustainable technologies developed by various laboratories and Institutes of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, well known NGOs and others as its is difficult to incorporate all the technologies. It covers wide spectrum of technologies and processes for implementation in rural and tribal areas, such as: building materials and components for low cost durable housing, agricultural implements for higher productivity and efficiency; food and agro based industries for value addition of agri produce, medicinal and aromatic plants to fulfil needs of pharmaceutical industries, utilisation of Minor forest produce to offer 100-150 days employment in rural and tribal areas, rural energy for eradication of drudgery, purification of drinking water to save rural population from water borne diseases, Rain water harvesting to conserve water, Tissue culture, low cost nursery, employment generating technologies, etc. Apart from brief details, techno-economics and sources of technologies have also been given. The book will be of immense use to Panchayat and Rural Development Departments, District Industries Centres, NGOs, Management and Entrepreneurship development Institutes, CARAPT and others engaged in employment generation activities.